Peter Schaefer is a well-known writer for cinema people. Shaffer has written more than eighteen plays during his career, many of which, including "Five Fingers Exercise", have been portrayed in the same way or in adaptations.
Shaffer's fir ...
Peter Schaefer is a well-known writer for cinema people. Shaffer has written more than eighteen plays during his career, many of which, including "Five Fingers Exercise", have been portrayed in the same way or in adaptations.
Shaffer's first play was called "Shorezar" which he wrote in 1951 and in 1955 it was made into a television movie. Following this success, Shaffer continued to write and established his position as a playwright by writing the play Five Finger Exercise in 1958.
The events in "Exercise Five Fingers" revolve around a newly arrived homeroom teacher who is also a skilled pianist. The story has five main characters who reach the edge of the abyss in the struggle of life and endure sufferings to adapt to life.
The story begins when Mr. Harrington, along with his wife and two children, go to their summer house for vacation. The arrival of Walter, a young boy, and a German teacher, in this house is the beginning of the full adventures of this story. Adventures that bring the hidden differences of family members to the surface.
"Exercise five fingers" can be a hint of these five main characters of the story. Five fingers that are very different from each other and cannot live without each other.
The characterization of the story is such that the reader or viewer can identify with all its characters. Characters are full of screams of anger and meaningful silences. Living characters with desires that have been suppressed by society or family.
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